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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Aaron Rodgers received a phone call from a close friend a little after midnight on Monday and, still irritated after a 23-20 loss to the Buffalo Bills, he ignored it. “I wasn’t in the mood,” Rodgers said. His friend called again around 1 a.m.; this time …

MINNEAPOLIS — Sabrina Ionescu didn’t initially remember the details of the biggest shot of her career. She wasn’t sure how far she pulled up from or with which hand she was dribbling. But rest assured, everyone who watched the New York Liberty star’s game-winning 3-pointer with a second remaining in …

Tuesday should have been a triumphant night for the NWSL’s latest expansion team, but less than a day after a packed event in downtown Boston to officially launch BOS Nation’s team name and colors, the club issued an apology for the hurt the publicity campaign had caused. Five hundred fans …

NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani perked up when he heard his name. “I told him,” Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes said after Ohtani’s three-run moonshot iced an 8-0 victory over the Mets in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, “hit the ball over the fence.” “Not bad advice,” …

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Four words came to Curt Cignetti’s mind as he tried to follow along from 800 miles away the path of a tornado that was closing in on his youngest child. “What have I done?” It was April 27, 2011. Cignetti was at a function at Indiana University …

A moment of silence was held before every game in Finland’s top professional hockey league Wednesday following the killing of former player Janne Puhakka over the weekend. Puhakka, a forward who spent two years with the QMJHL’s Chicoutimi Sagueneens and played professionally in Finland and France, was found shot to …

It should not be this hard to like golf. Even if you can chuckle at a golf company putting a YouTube channel logo on a driver and charging $700, accept that the polo in the pro shop can easily cost upwards of $100, rationalize the cost and hassle of the …

NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani hit his second postseason home run to give the Los Angeles Dodgers three late insurance runs in the 8-0 victory to give the Dodgers a 2-1 lead in the National League Championship Series. Ohtani, who entered the game 0-for-19 with no runners on base, extended …

Longtime majority owner Jerry Reinsdorf is open to selling the Chicago White Sox, sources briefed on the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly told The Athletic. The 88-year-old Reinsdorf is in active discussions with a group led by former big leaguer Dave Stewart. Reinsdorf led a group that …

New England Patriots center David Andrews came back to the sideline after a drive a few years ago, content with the job he’d just done blocking for quarterback Tom Brady. Unbeknownst to Andrews, though, an image captured by cameras and shown on the sideline tablets given to NFL teams told …